Laser cleaning of optical windows in internal combustion engines

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Ranner, Helmut ^a   Tewari, Pratush Kumar ^b   Kofler, Heinrich ^a   Lackner, Maximilian ^a   Wintner, Ernst ^a   Agarwal, Avinash Kumar ^b   Winter, Franz ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Combustion chamber deposits; Internal combustion engine; Laser ablation; Laser cleaning; Optical spark plug

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; LASER ABLATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

COMBUSTION DIAGNOSTICS; LASER CLEANING; LASER IGNITION; LASER SHOTS; OPTICAL WINDOWS;

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES;

EID: 39749116270     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2793704     Document Type: Article

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